It's no secret that we love graphic novels at Brazos. Thu and Katie have chosen a few favorites, so take a look below. Whether they display a timely political struggle or the everlasting communal struggle...
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FeaturesJul 13th 2018Keaton: In your two previous novels, THE BLOOD OF HEAVEN and SECESSIA, you immersed us in the dark, convoluted history of the Gulf Coast. But those works hewed closely to the human story of the region--its wars and...
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FeaturesJul 6th 2018It’s a question that has followed me ever since I started working in bookstores: Why don’t more adults read Young Adult Novels? Anyone who’s come in to the store and talked to me knows I love YA books. They defy...
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Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature.
We will be working through the book in sections: for our first meeting in June, read pp 1-214 (ch. 1-43). For July, please read 215-439 (ch. 44-90). And for August, read 440-end (ch. 91-135).
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Wiener, a renowned Peruvian essayist, collects several pieces of her immersive "gonzo" journalism in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didion. She delves into subcultures, participating with swingers, sampling drug rituals and confronts her fear of death among other titilating subjects. Flat out cool, unabashed badass writing. So fun!
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A stunning, brave and truly unclassifiable essay. Told in different parts IDIOPHONE is both an essay, a poem and a meditation on being creative. Call it a call-to-arms that manages to discuss writing, courage, motherhood and yes, THE NUTCRACKER. Fusselman manages to be both ironic and inspiring, funny and topical. This is a fantastic marvel of a book.
Shepard, one of our best fiction writers, brings his signature intelligence to film in this collection that probes the intersection of cinema and politics. Originally written for The Believer during George W. Bush's presidential administration, Shepard covers films ranging from Chinatown to Saving Private Ryan to discuss what they mean to the present political moment. Ten years have passed since he wrote these essays, but now, in the shadow of Trump, they seem somehow even more relevant at charting the ways popular culture can be both solace and propaganda.
I'm pretty picky about short stories. Judgemental, I know. I don't want them to be so short that I see merely a brief vignette, but don't want them to be so long that I lose interest in what seems always to be the single-track plot.
These short stories are neither of those things. You can practically feel Helen DeWitt's cleverness oozing from each story. I think she's absolutely on another level. If you're looking for something that has the audacity to be funny, sharp as a knife, and unrepentantly dark all at the same time, this is the book for you.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes